WATER MIRROR ECHO by Jeff Chang - Publishers Weekly 'Be Like Bruce: PW Talks with Jeff Chang'

Publishers Weekly | July 25, 2025

In Water Mirror Echo, the journalist tells the story of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee’s rise to fame alongside the cultural history of Asian America.

You write that Lee is “perhaps the most famous person in the world about whom so little is known.” What do you mean by that?

People knew Bruce and they knew his screen presence, but they didn’t really know who he was off-screen. Bruce Lee is the picture that people have of Asian Americans, but people don’t have that picture filled in.

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